What you speak may influence what you hear, a new study shows. People perceive different patterns in the same sound sequences depending on their native tongue, researchers have found. The short, first note of “Greensleeves” may sound naturally eleg
As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere. Like a computer booting up its operating system before running more complicated
Men with a personality disorder underwent brain-imaging which showed they suffered from a lack of nerve cells in one area of their brains. The cells - equivalent to about two teaspoonful's worth - were missing in the men, who had all committed serious,
Ground-breaking new research is showing just what happens to the brain during a psychotic episode, and how this can lead to violence, even murder...Researchers have found that people with a history of violence - whether psychotic or psychopathic - have a
Psychopaths showed less activity in brain areas involved in assessing the emotion of facial expressions, the British Journal of Psychiatry reports. In particular, they were far less responsive to fearful faces than healthy volunteers.
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
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